ForeWord Clarion Review
NONFICTION: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Bible Discovered: Bible = Babel (Babylon)
Hamíit Oliji Bérai
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978-1-4663-1618-8
Four Stars (Out of Five)
Mark G. McLaughlin, December 20, 2011
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” is what a newspaper editor tells a young reporter in the classic John Ford western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. That is what generations of archaeologists, anthropologists, etymologists, and linguists have done in their reports on the language, culture, and history of the Kurdish people, according to author Hamíit Oliji Bérai in Bible Discovered.
Kurdistan "was in ancient past the birthplace of civilization and culture heritage of the human race" and its people were "the inventors of the wheel, the discoverers of script, the homeland of the empires, the forefathers of the world religions (polytheism the matriarchal culture; monotheism the patriarchal culture), the source of inspiration of western civilization, in other words, the mother of cultures." Those accomplishments, claims Bérai, have been mistakenly, or even intentionally, attributed to other ethnic and cultural groups.
Bible Discovered is meant for serious students of Biblical archaeology or interested amateurs seeking to broaden their understanding of the language, culture, and accomplishments of the ancient peoples of what Herodotus dubbed “Mesopotamia,” the land between the rivers.
The Kurds, whom Bérai says have inhabited that area continuously since before history was recorded, call this place Botania, or Jzira Botan, the “island” between the Tigris and the Euphrates. “Unfortunately, modern scholars,” he charges, “do not count Kurds and Kurdish in their work at all, they unfairly wipe away [the] name of the Kurds and replaced it unjustly with Turkish, Arabic, Iranian, Persian or Mesopotamian.”
Bérai backs up his thesis of what he calls a “fabrication” of history with hundreds of examples, including maps, photographs of archaeological sites, illustrations, and extensive translations of pictographs taken from steles, bowls, daggers, tablets, and other artifacts. His translation, reasoning, and conclusion will surely raise the eyebrows of traditional scholars, as Bérai challenges what two centuries of (mostly European) experts have published and still teach.
Those with a genuine interest and solid background in the archaeological, anthropological, cultural, and linguistic study of the ancient Near East will find Bible Discovered a fascinating, if controversial, counterclaim to accepted doctrine.
Bérai presents a wealth of information for readers to examine.
Unlike the newspaper editor in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Bérai believes that, “when the facts contradict your theory, you should modify your theory, not the facts.”
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/bible-discovered/
NONFICTION: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Bible Discovered: Bible = Babel (Babylon)
Hamíit Oliji Bérai
CreateSpace
978-1-4663-1618-8
Four Stars (Out of Five)
Mark G. McLaughlin, December 20, 2011
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” is what a newspaper editor tells a young reporter in the classic John Ford western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. That is what generations of archaeologists, anthropologists, etymologists, and linguists have done in their reports on the language, culture, and history of the Kurdish people, according to author Hamíit Oliji Bérai in Bible Discovered.
Kurdistan "was in ancient past the birthplace of civilization and culture heritage of the human race" and its people were "the inventors of the wheel, the discoverers of script, the homeland of the empires, the forefathers of the world religions (polytheism the matriarchal culture; monotheism the patriarchal culture), the source of inspiration of western civilization, in other words, the mother of cultures." Those accomplishments, claims Bérai, have been mistakenly, or even intentionally, attributed to other ethnic and cultural groups.
Bible Discovered is meant for serious students of Biblical archaeology or interested amateurs seeking to broaden their understanding of the language, culture, and accomplishments of the ancient peoples of what Herodotus dubbed “Mesopotamia,” the land between the rivers.
The Kurds, whom Bérai says have inhabited that area continuously since before history was recorded, call this place Botania, or Jzira Botan, the “island” between the Tigris and the Euphrates. “Unfortunately, modern scholars,” he charges, “do not count Kurds and Kurdish in their work at all, they unfairly wipe away [the] name of the Kurds and replaced it unjustly with Turkish, Arabic, Iranian, Persian or Mesopotamian.”
Bérai backs up his thesis of what he calls a “fabrication” of history with hundreds of examples, including maps, photographs of archaeological sites, illustrations, and extensive translations of pictographs taken from steles, bowls, daggers, tablets, and other artifacts. His translation, reasoning, and conclusion will surely raise the eyebrows of traditional scholars, as Bérai challenges what two centuries of (mostly European) experts have published and still teach.
Those with a genuine interest and solid background in the archaeological, anthropological, cultural, and linguistic study of the ancient Near East will find Bible Discovered a fascinating, if controversial, counterclaim to accepted doctrine.
Bérai presents a wealth of information for readers to examine.
Unlike the newspaper editor in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Bérai believes that, “when the facts contradict your theory, you should modify your theory, not the facts.”
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/bible-discovered/
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